National Magazine Awards Shortlist

It may be called a shortlist but 362 submissions have been nominated for the 35th annual National Magazine Awards. This year’s awards consist of 45 written, visual, integrated and special categories. The finalists will be announced on June 7th at the 35th anniversary National Magazine Awards gala in Toronto. We are delighted to note that Open Book: Toronto's Contributing Editor, Grace O'Connell, was nominated twice in the fiction category.

Below is a look at the nominations in a few of the written categories.

Greg Hollingshead for “The Drug-Friendly House” (Eighteen Bridges)Wayde Compton for “The Instrument” (Event)Bill Gaston for “Four Corners” (Event)Zoey Peterson for “Next Year, For Sure” (Malahat Review)Peter Unwin for “The World in the Evening” (Queen’s Quarterly)Grace O’Connell for “The Many Faces of Montgomery Clift” (Taddle Creek) and “Noisemakers” (The Walrus)Lawrence Hill for “Meet You at the Door” (The Walrus)

This trailer for Tony Burgess's fictional retelling of a real murder case, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, was unveiled at the ChiZine Publications Fall 2010 launch party held on Friday, Oct. 22 in Toronto. Shot in a single afternoon at Burgess’s home in Stayner, Ontario, the trailer was directed by noted Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, The Collector, Hard Core Logo, The Tracey Fragments). For more information about People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, visit the CZP website.